Hand it to Dutch scientist Mark Post. He not only created a "hamburger" in a laboratory. He got the media to give him the benefit of the doubt when he cooked and consumed the cultured meat.

According to the New York Times, one of his two fellow tasters said "the bite feels like a conventional hamburger" but the meat tasted like "an animal protein cake." If that sounds like a euphemism for "yuck," the journalistic accounts of the London tasting I read were too polite to say so.